The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-02-24
WEST AND SOUTH.

The lower house Of the Missouri Legisla-
ture on the 18th passed, by vote of 76 to
So, the joint resolution providing that the
question of prohibition be submitted to q
vote of the people of the State.
The wholesale dry goods and shoe house
of Block, Oppenheimer Il Co., at Galveston,
Tex, made an assignment for the benefit of
creditors on the 18th. The total liabilities
will reach $50, 700, with assets of about
half that amount
Mrs. D. P. Hathaway was on the 18th ap-
pointed by Judge Edwards deputy COM
missioner of the Chancery Court at Louis
vile, KY, and that lady qualified at once.
Mrs. Hathaway is an expert stenographer
and has the distinction of being the only
woman commissioner ever holding an Office
in Kentucky.
An Insurance Union, an organization the
membership of which embraces prominent
men and companies in twentyone States,
was on the 18th holding its semi-annual
meeting at Louisville, KY.
A sensation was caused in the Minnesota
House of Representative on the 10th when
Mr.. Donnelly, upon the defeat of his bill
so to 39-fxing maxi mum rates of freight
on grain, declared that he had been in
formed by Representative that one Of the
Representatives. colleagues had stated that
he could get $3.50 for voting against the bill.
The grand jury Of Rowan County, KY,
has returned true bills against Henry 8.
Logan, Morgan McCleary and Lou Raybonn,
charging them with banding themselves
together for the purpose of killing Judge
A. e. Cole, Colonel ]. T. Young and his son
Allie W. Young, now county attorney Of
Rowan. The conspiracy was detected
through the arrest of one Harris, who con-
fessed that he had been hired by Henry s.
Logan to assist in killing the above parties
and had promised to secure four other per-
sons to aid him. The plan agreed upon was
| to shoot their victims through the brush or
| the windows of the hotel.
At San Francisco on the 10Th the police
arrested j. e. Stiles and 81. Z. Dean, who
are alleged to be the perpetrators Of the re-
cent dynamite outrages on the Sutter and
Geary street cable lines.
| The Indiana House on the 10Th passed the
local option temperance bill which permits
vote on the question upon the petition OF
one-tenth of the voters in each township.
The bill was passed by vote of 81 to Al
Fifty-three Republicans and four Demo
! Gratis voted for the measure.
At st. Louis on the 18th the jury in the
case of George Withrow, charged with
placing dynamite on the tracks of the Well
| ington Avenue Street Railway during the
street strike of two years ago, returned 6
verdict Of not guilty.
Messrs. Curtis & Atkinson, cattle men o.
Henrietta, Tex, have contracted to deliver
to a Montreal (Can.) firm on June l si1
thousand head of female cattle, from year
lings up to six-year-old cows, for sec, 600
The herd has been purchased for breeding
purposes.
The Lynchburg (va.) Virg inia',, one o
the oldest newspapers in the State, having
been established in 1908, has suspended
publication.
A joint resolution which provides for th'
submission of the question of prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
liquors in West Virginia, has been passes
by the Legislature. The submission will b
voted on in November, 1883, the next genera
election.
The American Board of Commissioner
for Foreign Missions has rejected the appl
cation of R. c. Morse, of Yale theologica
school, who has recently been licensed t
preach.
David Dunlap's tobacco factory at Peters
burg, Va, one Of the largest in the Unite
States, was destroyed by fire on the 17tt
, together with handsome residence &C
joining. Loss S250,00O.
j. Church and B. Harmon were caught il
, storm in their vessel at Astoria, Ore, o
February and blown out to sea. Tn
small supply of provisions in their crai